red states rule
11-04-2013, 03:09 AM
This is like the VA on steroids
Vermont, the first U.S. state to pass a law to implement single-payer (http://www.greenmountaincare.org/), taxpayer-funded health insurance, has paid $170 million for its healthcare exchange website that does not work (http://rutlandherald.com/article/20131031/OPINION04/710319973/0/OPINION)—and it only had to enroll 40,000 people.
Vermont's exchange (https://portal.healthconnect.vermont.gov/VTHBELand/welcome.action), healthconnect.vermont.gov, is nearly entirely (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/22/obamacare-s-vermont-fail.html) non-functional, and the vast majority of prospective customers have found themselves unable to actually purchase (http://digital.vpr.net/post/state-not-ready-delay-health-care-law) the insurance plan they selected. Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin assured Vermonters that the site would be functional on Nov. 1, but as of today, Nov. 3, the only thing on the website is an error message.
The population of Vermont is approximately 626,000 people. Of these 626,000, roughly 42,000 (http://vtdigger.org/2013/03/05/survey-numbers-of-vermonters-without-health-insurance-decline-trend-at-odds-with-national-rates/) lack health insurance. If Vermont had divided up the amount used to fund the non-functional exchange equally amongst all uninsured Vermont residents, the state could have doled out roughly $4,000 per person.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2013/11/03/vermont-paid-170-million-for-healthcare-exchange-to-insure-40000-people-n1735413
Vermont, the first U.S. state to pass a law to implement single-payer (http://www.greenmountaincare.org/), taxpayer-funded health insurance, has paid $170 million for its healthcare exchange website that does not work (http://rutlandherald.com/article/20131031/OPINION04/710319973/0/OPINION)—and it only had to enroll 40,000 people.
Vermont's exchange (https://portal.healthconnect.vermont.gov/VTHBELand/welcome.action), healthconnect.vermont.gov, is nearly entirely (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/22/obamacare-s-vermont-fail.html) non-functional, and the vast majority of prospective customers have found themselves unable to actually purchase (http://digital.vpr.net/post/state-not-ready-delay-health-care-law) the insurance plan they selected. Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin assured Vermonters that the site would be functional on Nov. 1, but as of today, Nov. 3, the only thing on the website is an error message.
The population of Vermont is approximately 626,000 people. Of these 626,000, roughly 42,000 (http://vtdigger.org/2013/03/05/survey-numbers-of-vermonters-without-health-insurance-decline-trend-at-odds-with-national-rates/) lack health insurance. If Vermont had divided up the amount used to fund the non-functional exchange equally amongst all uninsured Vermont residents, the state could have doled out roughly $4,000 per person.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2013/11/03/vermont-paid-170-million-for-healthcare-exchange-to-insure-40000-people-n1735413